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[Ian]

The following ten pairs of words have three letters in common. Fill in the blank spaces to make twenty different words according to the definitions below.


. . . . can   1.   nac . . . .
. . . can .   2.   . nac . . .
. . can . .   3.   . . nac . .
. can . . .   4.   . . . nac .
can . . . .   5.   . . . . nac
can . . . .   6.   . . . . nac
. can . . .   7.   . . . nac .
. . can . .   8.   . . nac . .
. . . can .   9.   . nac . . .
. . . . can   10.  nac . . . .

LEFT	RIGHT
1. The Pope's palace	1. The hue of mother-of-pearl
2. To comment at great length	2. Unperformed
3. Mysterious	3. A handcuff
4. Malicious gossip	4. An enclosed fire-place
5. To solicit orders	5. Noted river in New York state
6. A portable flask	6. Year-book
7. Scrutinised	7. A familiar vegetable
8. Emptiness	8. Threatened
9. To cheat	9. The establisher of a law
10. A long-billed water bird	10. Outer casing of aircraft engine